Euclid

Mathematics Greek -325 – -265 439 quotes

Father of geometry, wrote Elements

Quotes by Euclid

In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.

Elements, Proposition 47

If in a triangle the square on one of the sides be equal to the squares on the remaining two sides of the triangle, the angle contained by the remaining two sides of the triangle is right.

Elements, Proposition 48

A plane angle is the inclination to one another of two lines in a plane which meet one another and do not lie in a straight line.

Elements (Book I, Definition 8) -300

When the lines containing the angle are straight, the angle is called rectilineal.

Elements (Book I, Definition 9) -300

A right angle is half of two right angles.

Elements (Book I, Definition 10) -300

An obtuse angle is that which is greater than a right angle.

Elements (Book I, Definition 11) -300

An acute angle is that which is less than a right angle.

Elements (Book I, Definition 12) -300

To place a straight line equal to a given straight line with one end at a given point.

Elements (Book I, Proposition 2) -300

To cut off from the greater of two given unequal straight lines a straight line equal to the less.

Elements (Book I, Proposition 3) -300

If two triangles have two sides and the included angle equal, then they are congruent.

Elements (Book I, Proposition 4) -300

In isosceles triangles the angles at the base are equal to one another, and, if the equal straight lines are produced further, the angles under the base are equal to one another.

Elements (Book I, Proposition 5) -300

If in a triangle two angles are equal, then the sides opposite them are equal.

Elements (Book I, Proposition 6) -300

Given two straight lines constructed from the ends of a straight line and meeting in a point, there cannot be constructed from the ends of the same straight line, and on the same side of it, two other straight lines meeting in another point and equal to the former two respectively.

Elements (Book I, Proposition 7) -300

The sum of any two angles of a triangle is less than two right angles.

Elements (Book I, Proposition 16) -300

In any triangle the sum of the three interior angles is equal to two right angles.

Elements (Book I, Proposition 32) -300

The square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.

Elements (Book I, Proposition 47) -300

The circle is the plane figure contained by one line such that all the straight lines falling upon it from one point among those lying within the figure are equal to one another.

Elements (Book I, Definition 15) -300

To describe a circle with any centre and distance.

Elements (Book III, Proposition 1) -300

The angle in a semicircle is a right angle.

Elements (Book III, Proposition 31) -300

The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is constant.

Elements (Book XII, Proposition 2) -300